Silence And Secrets: The Consequences Of Silence And Secrets

Silence and Secrets
Have you ever had to experience something so awful that you felt like you had to keep it a secret to yourself for a very long period of time? While you were keeping that secret bottled up inside you, did you do certain things to keep your mind off it or to forget about it all together? If so, you and Jesse Vogel have a lot in common, because keeping a secret bottled up inside himself is what determined a lot of situations and events in Jesse’s life. Jesse had an extremely horrifying event happen to him when he was just a child (seeing his entire family dead after his father murdered them and then the father himself taking his own life), and the aftermath of that event for Jesse became a daily struggle with himself to cope

The day his family was murdered, the last words exchanged between he and his mother and sister went along the lines of “Go to hell… get out of here!” (Wonderland, 18) so you can only imagine how guilty Jesse felt about saying “goodbye” to his mother and sister in such a hostile way. With that guilt still hanging on his shoulders, Jesse realized that he could release himself and his emotions to Anne Marie through sex and affection, which for a while seemed to be working out great for him. But once it became obvious that Jesse was becoming over attached to Anne Marie by constantly stalking her and always being suspicious of her daily, and when she later said to him “I’m afraid of you… Jesse, please don’t hurt me…” (Wonderland, 213), Jesse’s relationship with her was beginning to go in a downward spiral. Once Jesse realized that he no longer truly loved Anne Marie anymore, he was still intending on marrying her because he still yearned for having a companion to be with for the rest of his life, but once she got the gist that Jesse no longer loved her, she left him. But it turns out that having Anne Marie no longer involved in Jesse’s life would lead on to something even better for Jesse’s sake, because shortly after Anne Marie left, he met a women named

If he wouldn’t have gone out to find her in Toronto, she would have been another person in Jesse’s life whom he cared about, that he would lose forever. That only goes to show you how keeping emotions bottled up inside of you and staying silent about it, can not only have a major impact on your life, but on the lives of the people around